variants
or drivelled
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as in shouted
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
he driveled on about his "distinguished" family for what seemed like hours
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for driveled
Verb
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Having to spend your day punching up a crappy slide deck your colleague’s chatbot spit out is annoying, to be sure.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025 -
Others were spit on, bitten, placed in headlocks and verbally threatened with violence.—
Sam Tabachnik,
Denver Post,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Resy shouted out the wine selection, which focuses on local options from Arizona and California, and items from the small but stellar dining menu, such as the squash risotto (with optional crab) and the half-chicken with black garlic for two.—
Endia Fontanez,
AZCentral.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Video from the Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel shows floodwater bursting through the closed lobby doors, quickly rising to knee height while staff shouted for guests to evacuate.—
Ronnie Li,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Mulroney, Ackerman, Snow, and Newman turn this story of spatting WAGS into an explosive, addictive watch.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
11 Aug. 2025
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Preparation has cultural and regional variations, but the seed is usually chewed with slaked lime and betel leaves, and chewing releases a red juice that's often then spat out.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The offense sputtered in the first half.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Miami’s offense has sputtered a bit since that solid first drive of the game but the Hurricanes now have a 13-0 lead.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
21 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The government was sufficiently rattled to rescind the ban the next morning.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The shaking broke some windows in Berkeley and rattled products off the shelves in some stores.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Sombr chatted with an invisible talk show host and invited fans on stage to call their exes (and their exes' moms).—
Audrey Gibbs,
Nashville Tennessean,
25 Sep. 2025
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Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo chatted about his roster for the 2025-26 season.—
Christian Romo,
Freep.com,
25 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Diners chattered away and ate at the restaurant while wedding guests gathered on the dance floor.—
Lauren Mascarenhas,
CNN Money,
22 Sep. 2025
Verb
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As Lindell babbled on about baseless conspiracy theories involving voting in De Baraso’s home state of Georgia, the 12-year-old shut him down.—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Driveled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/driveled. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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